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A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter ...
In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck ...
For centuries arsenic's image as a poison has been inextricably tied to images of foul play. In King of Poisons, John Parascandola examines the ...
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to ...
Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it's a ...
In 1066 the most significant battle on English soil - and arguably the most important in British history - took place some six miles northwest of Hastings ...
In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it ...
Winston Churchill, the great wartime leader and peacetime Prime Minister, is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original ...
From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century ...
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West
The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an ...
In Flaws in the Ice, prize-winning historian David Day searches for the real Douglas Mawson. After travelling south on his own six-week odyssey to the ...
Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards ...
In this expansive one-volume account of the native peoples of North America, eminent historian William Brandon-who devoted much of his life to examining this subject-presents ...
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the ...
